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050 00 $aPR9619.3.F525$bG68 2002
082 00 $a823/.914$221
100 1 $aFlanagan, Richard,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95045492
245 10 $aGould's book of fish :$ba novel in twelve fish /$cby Richard Flanagan.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c2002.
263 $a0204
300 $a404 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The novel from author Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish is a tragicomic tapestry of nineteenth-century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.".
520 8 $a"Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before all the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Sarah Island penal colony of Van Diemen's Land - now Tasmania. A talented phony and art forger, Gould was enlisted by the prison doctor Lempriere to get him into the Royal Society by painting a book of fish.
520 8 $aHe fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Foolish Billy Gould, invader of Australia, thief, liar, and murderer, lived to bear witness to horror and ridicule, and to miracles."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGould, William Buelow,$d1803-1853$vFiction.
650 0 $aMarine animals in art$vFiction.
650 0 $aPrisoners as artists$vFiction.
650 0 $aPenal colonies$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105388
650 0 $aFishes in art$vFiction.
651 0 $aAustralia$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
650 0 $aPrisoners$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108759
650 0 $aPainters$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108758
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $bbar$hPR9619.3.F525$iG68 2002